Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases...

To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression. Divers follow a decompression model to safely allow...

analysis into the study of decompression sickness in 1982. Albert A. Bühlmann published Decompression–Decompression sickness in 1984. Bühlmann recognised...

Inner ear decompression sickness, (IEDCS) or audiovestibular decompression sickness is a medical condition of the inner ear caused by the formation of...

also avoid complications due to sub-clinical decompression injury. The symptoms of decompression sickness are known to be caused by damage resulting from...

pressures. Decompression obligation for a given dive profile must be calculated and monitored to ensure that the risk of decompression sickness is controlled...

are not generally considered barotrauma. Decompression illness is a term that includes decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism caused by lung...

of decompression sickness in 5.3% of cases by the U.S. Navy as reported by Powell, 2008 including isobaric decompression sickness. Decompression sickness...

Decompression Illness (DCI) comprises two different conditions caused by rapid decompression of the body. These conditions present similar symptoms and...

decompress divers as well as treat injuries. Pressurized tunnel boring machines: just as the original term for "the bends" or "decompression sickness"...

Hypobaric decompression is the reduction in ambient pressure below the normal range of sea level atmospheric pressure. Altitude decompression is hypobaric...

of solution too quickly during decompression, they form bubbles in the tissues which can cause decompression sickness ("the bends"), a harmful and potentially...

profile which, according to the programmed decompression algorithm, will give a low risk of decompression sickness. A secondary function is to record the...

or fail to pressurize at all. Such decompression may be classed as explosive, rapid, or slow: Explosive decompression (ED) is violent and too fast for air...

equivalent decompression may result in decompression sickness. Repetitive diving, multiple ascents within a single dive, and surface decompression procedures...

The US Navy has used several decompression models from which their published decompression tables and authorized diving computer algorithms have been...

decompression sickness, barotraumas of compression and decompression, and long term risks include dysbaric osteonecrosis. The risk of decompression sickness...

effect on decompression. IEDCS is known to occur during ascent after some deep dives, but the causes are uncertain. Inner ear decompression sickness is known...

maintain depth. If this happens with a significant decompression obligation, the risk of decompression sickness will be high. The CMAS Self-Rescue Diver training...

disorder Beriberi Decompression sickness occurs during rapid ascent, spanning 20 or more feet (typically from underwater). Decompression sickness may express...

the partial pressures of the gases present. Initial uses were in decompression sickness, and it also effective in certain cases of gas gangrene and carbon...

the tissues during and after decompression. Decompression stress does not necessarily result in decompression sickness, but it is a necessary precondition...

epidermal atrophy and ulceration. Cutis marmorata also occurs in decompression sickness (DCS). Although it is considered Type I DCS, which is non-neurological...

(1988); Report on Decompression Illness and Diving Fatalities (based on data collected in 1987). Dovenbarger, JA (1989); Report on Decompression Illness and...

usually obvious and may present quite differently from decompression sickness. Decompression sickness: Inert gas bubbles form in the bloodstream if the gas...

hours after a dive. The principal conditions are decompression illness (which covers decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism), nitrogen narcosis...

Haldane's decompression procedures and the associated tables developed in the early 1900s greatly reduced the incidence of decompression sickness, but did...

Another means by which sonar could be hurting cetaceans is a form of decompression sickness. This was first raised by necrological examinations of 14 beaked...

buoyancy control, but when long decompression stops at specific depths are required, the risk of decompression sickness is increased by depth variations...

the full symptoms thereof. Decompression sickness may also be controlled by a full-pressure suit as for altitude sickness. Barotrauma As the aircraft...